St. Paul daily globe., 1887-05-01

the silver-mounted hose, dipping his
Soft strong hands in the water and gave
the subject a vigorous scrubbing. He
washed and wrung out the subjects
iimDs, and made every square inch Of
the cuticle give up its secrets. Then he
took currycomb and went over the
vlctii-i. He soaped the manly frame of
Should use sitter brush.
III you have a garden rake or some
gentle Instrument, please use that, said
the victim.
Hercules was perspiring himself.
GEeat beads of sweat stood all over his
rounded body, and the light Illuminated
them until he looked like diamond
mounted man.
When he had curried his subject and
Soaped his head, Hercules blandly asked
nm TO sit up on the edge of the dissect-
| ing, table. Then Hercules went over
and toyed with the silver-mOunted hose
moment. An OminOus hiss followed,
alid a second later the victim was trying
had turned the hose on him. The Croton
river and the Atlantic ocean were, it
seemed, after. the poor, defenceless
wretch on the diSSecting table. In vain
he swung his arms and tried to get Her
cllles to behave himself. His eyes and
mouth got full of soap and water, and
ms breath refused to be caught.
In the early part of the torture the
water had come from the temperate
zone. Then it grew cold and cruel, and
the sharp, frosty needles of the arctic
shot into every pore. Hercules calmly
held the hose, and the victim, who a
lew minutes before had been, as he
thought, thousand degrees above zero.
WAS InyUro in fha q
! the thermometer. His teeth chattered a
vain protest, but Hercules held to the
/ hose and kept on. Then Hercules took
| his limp subject under the end of the in
Verted pepper box, and all the previous
misery of the night was forgotten in the
| agony of that relentless shower. A
| thousand aqueous needles came down
with fearful force and pierced the vic
TINS defenceless body. After about a
thousand years of this torture Hercules
said: PLEASE step out this way"
The subject wondered what new tor
ture his iiendish ingenuity would next
invent. Hercules conducted the wretch
to the hall and kindly mopped the soar
and water out of his eyes and wrune
him out. When he had partially wiped
his subject he hung him out to dry. He
produced table-clOth, draped him in il
and led him back to his berth.
The worst of the ordeal was over
Hercules gave the novice warm drinl,
and then laid him ont in his bunk
tucked him up as tenderly as mother
does her babe, and told him to go tC
sleep. This untrameled way of sleep
ing, as Adam must have done before thf
cotton factory was invented, s very
unique. The subjects pores continued
to weep gently, and man in the next
berth snored with sOnorOuS emphasis.
1t was at a. M, and fifty men were
sleeping in the bath-house. At leasi
400 persons take baths daily in the Hoff
man house and Lafayette place resorts
the latter being the most famous in the
city. More than fifty ladies day battle
in the ladies' department of the HOff
man house baths, which are on an uppe,
floor. Their hours are from 8 a. m
until 6p. m. At least 1000 persons a
day enjoy the torture of Turkish and
Russian baths in New York.
The stranger laid down in his berth
and argued with the absinthe his right
to sleep. The abSinthe and the snoreI
in the next berth contested this right
and came out ahead. At 4 O'Clock :
party Of young aristocrats came in. anc
one of them, upon whom Baccbu.
seemed to have first mortgage, made
much noise. Hercules took him III
Inland, and in short order subdued him
i with the hose. The attendant wen
4 about with clothespins and subdued the
noses OF those who were snoring. The